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Happenings In and Around Monroe, Jan. 20, 1920

From The Monroe Journal, Tuesday, January 20, 1920

Latest Happenings In and Around Monroe

Mr. James H. Griffin, a resident of North Monroe, shot and instantly killed himself Sunday morning. For a long time Mr. Griffin has been in ill health and for more than a week had threatened to shoot himself, or if his pistol was taken from him, to jump from the overhead bridge. He became worse early Sunday morning, and while his wife went to a neighbor’s to secure help, shot himself. Mr. Griffin operated a small grocery store in North Monroe and was respected by all who knew him. He was about 35 years of age and leaves a wife and several small children.

Mrs. Mary J. Byrum died last Wednesday at her home in North Monroe after a long illness Funeral exercises were conducted Thursday at the North Monroe Methodist church by Rev. J.R. Warren and E.C. Snyder. Mrs. Byrum was born in 1852 and was married first to Mr. William Privett. He died in 1912 and in 1915 she became the wife of Mr. S.J. Byrum. Five children survive. Mrs. Byrum was a good woman, loved by many, and was a life long member of the Methodist church.

Mr. W.A. Benton, who has been with Messrs. W.H. Belk & Bro. for many years in charge of their shoe department, has bought an interest in the Benton store at Hamlet, and will take charge of the shoe business. Mr. Benton has endeared himself to the public by his uniform care, attention and civility, and Hamlet will gain as we lose one of our best citizens. It is understood that Mr. Benton’s family will move from their home on Benton Heights to Hamlet as soon as a house can be secured, but they are very scarce in that town.

There will be box suppers Saturday night at Stallings school house and at Pineview in Vance township. The public is cordially invited.

The Wingate farmers’ business union will meet next Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Oysters will be served, and every member is invited to be present.

Messrs. J.C. Huneycutt and H.C. Boylin have opened a “Wayside Garage” on the Monroe and Pageland road near Griffith’s Mill. In addition to doing repair work, they will keep a stock of automobile parts.

In naming the newly elected directors of the Savings, Loan & Trust co., The Journal erred in mentioning Mr. A.M. Stack instead of Mr. A.M. Secrest. Mr. R.A. Morrow should have been included in the list of old directors.

Mr. Frank Ashcraft was elected superintendent of the Sunday school of the First Baptist church last Sunday morning to succeed Mr. J.C. Sikes, who resigned. The late F.B. Ashcraft held this position for many years, being active superintendent until a few weeks before his death. Mr. J. Frank Williams was elected assistant superintendent.

Mr. S.K. Brigman of Buford township suffered a broken leg Wednesday as a result of a fall he received when his mule became frightened near Roughedge. He was in the act of stepping up on the wagon when one of the mules gave a lurch, causing him to lose his balance. The bone was shattered in several places just above the ankle Amputation may be necessary.

Mr. J. Alonzo Dixon, The Journal’s correspondent on Indian Trail, Route 1, writes: “Miss Lillie Hill is suffering from a painful injury to one of her eyes, caused the other day by the explosion of a dynamite cap in an open fire-place. That morning a quantity of boxes and trash were placed in the fire-place in her home to be burned. The cap was in one of these boxes and when it became hot, exploded. The force of the explosion shattered the chimney, and a missile of some sort struck Miss Hill in the eye. She is in Charlotte under the care of a specialist.”

“Union county farmers are receiving inquiries from over the state for long staple cotton seed,” says the Monroe correspondent of the Charlotte Observer. “The story published last fall about a local farmer buying a bag of cotton seed at an old hoss express sale, and the seed developed an unusually high grade of cotton, some of which sold for 88 cents a pound the past season, has attracted a good deal of attention and orders for this variety of seed are coming in. the quarantine on southern states on account of the boll weevil has cut off the supply and other sections are looking to Union county for seed.”

Quite a lot of speculation in Bearskin and Iceman Knitting mills stock has been going on in Monroe during the past few days. Holders of Bearskin stock, it is said, have been offered a premium of $5 or more per share, while Iceman Knitting is quoted at $1.02, and not a brick laid on the mill building. The good condition of the Bearskin’s property and machinery is the cause of the demand for its stock. In the case of the Iceman accounts for the increased value of its stock, the Icemorlee mill, which was organized by Mr. Iceman, is said to be the only mill in the South not to have ever failed to pay a dividend. Mr. Iceman is assembling material for his new mill, and construction work will be under way in a very short time.

“In a personal letter last week a friend in Union county who spent much of his life in Texas, where the boll weevil first played havoc, told something of the destructive habits of the insects,” says the Whiteville News-Reporter. “He says that on the lowlands where the cotton grew the rankest, the weevils got in their worst work. On higher lands where the stalk ever reached more than two or three feet the weevils did little or no damage, and it was the opinion of the writer that farmers in this state who planted cotton on the poorer and dryer lands would not be bothered with the weevil. The insects were described as about the size of a very small pea with his head so shaped that her resembled an elephant He has a little snout with which he punctures the forming squares and they will fall from the parent plant in about 24 hours thereafter. Eggs are laid in the puncture and squares that have been gathered up and put in glass jars would hatch the weevils in 10 or 12 days thereafter. They increase faster than bees in a hive and do most of their destructive work on moonlight nights. They are idle during the early morning and late evening hours while it is cool, and during the warm hours of the day they stay in the blossoms to be ready for action at night.”

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